Skip to content
RollCall logo

Ballet Members Will Read ‘Coppelia’

By Roll Call Staff
Posted March 15, 2004 at 2:13pm

Members of the Washington Ballet will read the classic children’s story “Coppelia” at 1 p.m. Saturday at the downtown Barnes & Noble Bookseller.

The Washington Ballet will perform “Coppelia” at the Kennedy Center March 31 through April 4. Dancers in the performance will be on hand for photographs, and tickets to the performance will be given away.

“Coppelia” tells the story of a dollmaker who creates a life-size doll named Coppelia who comes between a young woman, Swanhilda, and her fiancé, Franz.

Tickets for the Kennedy Center performance start at $44 and are available by calling (202) 467-4600.

The downtown Barnes & Noble is at 555 12th St. NW.

— Amy Carlile

Recent Stories

Rep. Terri A. Sewell, D-Ala., speaks during a Congressional Black Caucus news conference Wednesday in the Capitol on the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act. Rep. Sewell is flanked from left by Reps. Yvette D. Clarke, D-N.Y., Troy Carter, D-La., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Al Green, D-Texas, Shomari Figures, D-Ala., and Cleo Fields, D-La.

GOP lawmakers call for redistricting after Supreme Court ruling

From left, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, ACLI President Dirk Kempthorne, and Olympic runner Meb Keflezighi talk before the ACLI Capital Challenge Three-Mile Team Race in Anacostia Park on May 18, 2016.

Dirk Kempthorne, the creaky runner appreciation

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., leaves the House chamber after a rule governing debate on Section 702 of FISA and other measures was adopted Wednesday.

House overcomes floor hurdle on spy authority reauthorization

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was among the Republican holdouts who came around on the rule vote.

GOP leaders twist arms, flip votes on mega rule

From left, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Darren B. Cox, deputy assistant director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division, conduct a news conference at the Department of Justice on Monday about the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting incident. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

DOJ details planning of man charged with White House dinner shooting

The districts of, from left, Democratic Reps. Kathy Castor, Darren Soto and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida would become more Republican under Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposed congressional map.

Florida Republicans approve new congressional map pushed by DeSantis